A Site that Conicides with Our Work

Here is a website of a school who studied technology integration with Marzano's Strategies That Work: http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/vste/2008/index.htm

Identifying Similarities and Differences

1. Our Reactions

• graphic and symbolic representation can help students to understand better
• emphasis on students doing

2. How this strategy might look in our classrooms:

• Venn Diagram
• T-charts
• Classifying in different ways- students choose 'rules' for sort (For example: sorting numbers)
• Analogies: students use pictures and/or words
• Pre-sort before a reading; front-loading vocabulary, kids make up rules for sorting
• Kids sort same objects in 2 different ways
• Math Venn Diagram: 2 different operations with same answer

End of Year Assessment

Click here to take End of Year SMART Board Assessment.

After taking the assessment:

1. Choose 1 activity from the Lesson Activity Toolkit
2. Customize for a lesson you will be teaching tomorrow.
3. Save in the Shared Folder.

Small Groups in Language Arts

www.spellingcity.com

• A variety of activities for ANY spelling list/word work
 http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html
• SMART Board lessons created by teachers


http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interact-LA.htm
• Character Scrapbook
• Make Your Own Comics
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm
• Language Arts skill organized by grade and skill

March Meeting

Here are some great resources to add interactivity to your (specifically) science and social studies lessons:
1. http://exchange.smarttech.com/curriculum.html:  These lessons are correlated to each state's standard (choose Iowa, then grade, then area)
2. http://www.fossweb.com/ (for Foss science units)
3. http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Gamequarium/ (Has Music & Media too!) 

2010 Training Sessions

Mid-Year Assessment

Click here to take the mid-year assessment.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DT68MV9